Mounting for hooks and eyes.



PATENTED DEC. 3, 1907.

'F. L. WEST. MOUNTING FOR HOOKS AND EYES..-

- APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20, 1906.

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FRANK L. WEST, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

MOUNTING FOR HOOKS AND EYES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed August 20, 1906. Serial No. 331.241.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK L. Wnsr, a citizen of the United States,residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Mountings for Hooks andEyes; and do declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to mountings for hook and eye members, and theinvention consists in a mounting or anchor plate substantially as hereinconstructed and in the combination of parts all as hereinafter shown anddescribed and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

My chief object is to provide a mounting firm backing is obtained forsaid member,

especially at a point beneath the hump on the locking stem of the hookmember.

A further object is embodied in the triangular form of the mounting andits three prongs.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved mounting as sold to the trade. Fig. 2 is a perspective view ofa mounting and a hook and eye member attached thereto as in use. Fig. 3is an edge view of the mounting and a hook and eye member partiallyengaged therewith to illustrate the manner of attachment and detachment.Fig. 4 is a central sectional view of a set of mountings with the prongsin full lines and a set of hook and eye members in their connectedrelations upon a garment. Fig. 5 is an enlarged plan view of my mountingand a hook and eye member connected therewith, and the free spring loop.of the said member is shown in dotted lines to represent its disengagingposition in respect to the locking projection beneath.

The invention comprises a mounting or anchor plate 2 of triangular shapehaving a prong 3 bent downward at right angles to the body thereof ateach angle or corner of the plate, one at the front and two at the rear,respectively. Thus, when the device is attached to a garment or anyother article adapted to permit the prongs to pass through the bodythereof and be clenched as shown in Fig. 3, plate 2- is laid with itsgreatest length in the line of the pull it has to bear, therebydistributing the pull or strain over as great a surface as possible andat three different points. Plate 2 is further provided with a pair ofopen hooks or right-angled projections 4 struck up from the plate atopposite side edges near the rear or heel of the said plate. Either hookand eye member 5 or 6 Fig. 4, is adapted to be detachably engaged withsaid projections 4 and rest flat upon plate 2- substantially the fulllength of said member.

Projections 4 are located far to the rear on the sides of the plate tomore advantageously distribute the pull and strain over the material towhich the plate is fastened. Anyone of the common forms of hook and eyemembers 5 and 6 respectively, may be used with my improved mounting. Asshown, member 5 is of the form bent into hook shape from a single pieceof spring wire with opposite looped ends 7 and 8- respectively, and hasa shouldered or humped stem 9 extending centrally to the front beneathhook 10.' Member -6 is of the form having an eye or loop adapted toengage hook 10 of member 5.

When hook member 5 is secured in lace upon mounting 2 by engagin .oopend 7 over one projection 4- an by springing free loop end 8 over theother projection 4, said member rests substantially full length uponplate 2, and humped stem 9 is withheld from independent downwardmovement into the cloth as it also bears against plate 2. Whenengagement or disen agement of eye member 6 is effected, 00k 10 swingsaway from plate 2- with the fulcrum of its movement at projections 4.

Prongs 3 and projections 4 are struck up as integral parts of plate -2,and said projections are preferably angular and open as shown tofacilitate attachment and detachment of the hook and eye members. Plate2 is also provided with two openings 12 on the line of its longitudinalcenter, wherewith the mounting may be sewed to the garment in additionto clenching the same thereon by prongs -3. This is of advantage whenvery thin materials are used as a support for the mounting.

What I claim, is

1. A hook and eye member, provided with a hump near its middle, combinedwith a mounting having fastenings at its rear for saidmember and saidmounting being of substantially the same length as said member andextending beneath said hump.

2. A hook and eye member having lateral loops, combined with a mountinghaving a substantially triangular body provided with a sin le frontprong and two rear prongs integral therewith and lateral raisedprojections at the edge of said body engaged over the said lateral loopsof said hook and eye member.

3. As a new article of manufacture and sale, a mounting for hooks andeyes comprising an elongated body having a single intes'mms graldownwardly projecting prong at its front end and opposite integralprongs at its rear edge and lateral raised projections at each oppositesides thereof and standing above the plane of said plate, and adapted todetachably mount hook and eye members upon the upper face of saidmounting.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of twowitnesses.

FRANK L. W'EST. l/Vitnesses:

R. B. MosER, H. T. FISHER.

